However, they're big proponents of face-to-face communication.

Generation Z prefers communicating in person.
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The stereotype is that because Generation Z grew up with technology, they communicate exclusively online or via text; however, being digitally fluent hasn't impeded their ability — or desire — to communicate with people face-to-face.

According to Generation Z expert, Corey Seemiller: "The No. 1 preferred form of communication was face-to-face."

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They go to college in order to learn about their interests.

According to a quick facts sheet offered by Harvey Mudd College on its incoming 2018 freshman class, 87.4% of students polled indicated that they thought a "very important" reason to attend college is to learn more about things that interest them.

Only 43.7% indicated that they thought a "very important" reason to go to college was to make more money.

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They're less likely to drive, date, drink alcohol, and have sex than adolescents in previous decades.

Per INSIDER, a study by San Diego State University and Bryn Mawr College demonstrated that teens in Generation Z aren't as likely as adolescents in previous decades to drive, date, work for a wage, or have sex.

Jean M. Twenge for The Atlantic writes that even though Gen Z-ers are more safe than previous generations (due to prioritizing online communication over raucous, alcohol-fueled house parties), "they're on the brink of a mental-health crisis."

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They're more fiscally conservative than Millennials.

They're not going to squander their money away.
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They're accepting of sexual fluidity.

A survey conducted by New York-based J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group demonstrated that only 48% of people born after 1995 to 2003 identified as "exclusively heterosexual," as opposed to the 65% of Millennials polled who identified that way.

They're eager to reject the gender binary.

About 70% of Gen Z-ers polled said that they support gender-neutral bathrooms, and over a third of respondents adamantly agreed that gender no longer defines a person as much as it used to.

J. Walter Thompson's director of trendspotting, Shepherd Laughlin, told Broadly that the survey supported the idea that "gender itself isn't as important to personal identity as it used to be" to the new generation, and that "gender shouldn't be seen as a boundary."

They're interested in volunteering to gain life experience.

A 2014 study conducted by Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm, demonstrated that 77% of then-current high school students reported that they'd be "extremely" or "very interested" in volunteering to gain work experience.

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